Iran’s missile attack against Iraqi bases housing US troops on Tuesday appeared to have fallen short of their full capabilities – and the US seemed to be prepared for it well in advance. US defence officials spanning multiple agencies did not provide specifics on the warning systems, citing operational security […]
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif claimed his country’s missile attacks against Iraqi military bases housing US troops were merely “proportionate measures in self-defence.” “Iran took [and] concluded proportionate measures in self-defence under Article 51 of UN Charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack against our citizens & senior officials […]
Saeed Jalili, a conservative former secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Council, tweeted a picture of the Iranian flag on Tuesday afternoon, shortly after reports of missiles hitting US-stationed bases began emerging. At around 5:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, dozens of missiles hit at least two Iraqi bases housing US […]
Iran’s elite Quds Force commander, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, was killed in an airstrike, the US military announced Thursday. “At the direction of the President, the US military has taken decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds […]
A US cyberattack launched against Iran in late June in response to the downing of a US Navy drone successfully disrupted its abilities to attack oil tankers, according to a new report. The cyberattack “wiped out a critical database” used by Tehran to plan such attacks. A cybersecurity expert at […]
Iran is reportedly holding at least 23 sailors after it seized a UK-flagged tanker, the Stena Impero, in the Strait of Hormuz. A second tanker, owned by a British shipping company, was also seized by Iran on Friday. But it was later released, and reports said the crew was “safe […]
A day after Iran downed a US Navy RQ-4 Global Hawk drone flying at high altitude, President Donald Trump said the attack was “a mistake.” But the commander of the elite military unit that shot it down had already said the downing of the drone was “a clear message” to […]
The US has sent a lot of firepower – a carrier strike group, B-52 bombers, air-and-missile defence systems, and more – to the Middle East to counter Iran. US military and civilian leaders have said that they have intelligence indicating that Iran is planning an attack on US interests. As […]
The Trump administration has designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as well as the Quds Force, as a foreign terrorist organisation. This is the first time the US has applied the designation to part of a foreign government, which the White House on Monday said “underscores the fact that Iran’s […]
Iran had 50 or so armed speedboats training on swarming maneuvers in the Persian Gulf, and despite their small size and low tech, they could seriously damage the US Navy. The ships aren’t that great, but excel in the exact areas that the US Navy isn’t well suited to handle. […]
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